Sex & Death: Stories - Hardcover

Peter Hobbs

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571322425 ISBN 13: 9780571322428

Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006, 2016

Synopsis

Sex and Death

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How we come in, and how we go out, sex and death: these are the governing drives, our two greatest themes.

In this provocative, haunting, and sexy collection of short stories, a group of acclaimed writers from across the globe probes the nature of, and connection between, two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience: sex and death.

Here we see the events that mark the lives of the young and old, of men and women, of those meeting only briefly and others reflecting on shared pasts.

In these intense, often traumatic, and sometimes humorous interactions, we are confronted not just with our urges and anxieties, but with the very limits of mortality and morbidity. Honest, compassionate, and psychologically astute, the stories in Sex and Death are daring in their approaches to the form and relentless in their pursuit of what it is to be human.

Kevin Barry · Lynn Coady · Ceridwen Dovey · Robert Drewe · Damon Galgut · Petina Gappah · Sarah Hall · Peter Hobbs · Yiyun Li · Alexander MacLeod · Ben Marcus · Jon McGregor · Guadalupe Nettel · Courttia Newland · Taiye Selasi · Ali Smith · Wells Tower · Alan Warner · Claire Vaye Watkins · Clare Wigfall

About the Author

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of five novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army, How to Paint a Dead Man and The Wolf Border - as well as The Beautiful Indifference, a collection of short stories. The first story in the collection, 'Butchers Perfume', was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, a prize she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'. Peter Hobbs grew up in Cornwall and Yorkshire, and lives in London. His debut novel, The Short Day Dying, was published by Faber in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won a Betty Trask Prize. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A collection of stories, I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train, was published in 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0571322425
• ISBN 13: 9780571322428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336